Sensitivity of cancer cells to truncated diphtheria toxin.

Diphtheria toxin (DT) has been utilized as a prospective anti-cancer agent for the targeted delivery of cytotoxic therapy to otherwise untreatable neoplasia. DT is an extremely potent toxin for which the entry of a single molecule into a cell can be lethal. DT has been targeted to cancer cells by de...

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Main Authors: Yi Zhang, Wendy Schulte, Desmond Pink, Kyle Phipps, Andries Zijlstra, John D Lewis, David Morton Waisman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-05-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2864767?pdf=render